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I nodded "I don’t knohy ot the location wrong Or maybe it wasn’t your dad that you saw"
"It was definitely hied "I don’t know"
I thought Eleanor would offer soestions or ask me to recount every detail like she normally did, but instead she sat at her desk and looked out the
I wipedoutin front of ht"
A wave of guilt passed overabout myself andEleanor about how she was "Right Sorry I’ed on my bed "I summoned Benjamin Gallow"
I was pulling a sweatshirt over istered, and I froze "And?" I asked, h the cotton
"And there are co with the arm and head holes until I finally forced ht, exactly First I was thinking of hi of hi of Cassandra even though she wasn’t dead, and then I sort of summoned both of them"
"But that’s impossible Cassandra isn’t dead; she transferred"
"Not according to her"
CHAPTER 8
The Gottfried Curse
MONDAY MORNING, MY ALARM CLOCK WOKE ht streah the s, and I stretched beneath the sheets, s to myself as Dante kissed my wrists,his fingers through my hair
He leaned in, and all at once I opened , and the dream dissipated into the Nove beneath the blankets, her blond hair spilling over her pillow like corn silk Everything that had happened now seemed like a drea to piece together what had happened to Benjamin and Cassandra, but with no luck Maybe today would be different, I thought as I got dressed and headed to class But by second period ere just as confused
"The last thing Benja Cassandra After that, everything was blurry," Eleanor was explaining to Nathaniel We were sitting in the back of class before the start of Philosophy "So roroaned
"Anyway," I said, interrupting her, "since Eleanor had envisioned both of the of the séance, she summoned Cassandra too"
"Which means she’s dead!" Eleanor added loudly
"Shhh!" I cautioned, glancing around to ht ure out what had happened at the séance I had definitely summoned someone--a man who I had assureat oak like he’d shown ht "The séance didn’t exactly work for me, so we don’t actually know if it worked for you either"
Eleanor ignored me "But the craziest part is how she died," she continued excitedly "She was buried alive"